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ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… African affairs into which its miscalculations of the 1960s had thrust it. Several developments delivered this … Slovo an end to his isolation from the ANC’s…
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… of the second centenary. The ANC will this year hold its main anniversary celebrations in KwaZulu-Natal at Kings Park … ready to accommodate overflow in the…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… most major centres in South Africa. The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… in the whites-only Parliament of South Africa. During the 1960s, as the European powers granted independence to their …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s that the …
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… university and high school students. As early as the late 1960s, university students, who were to become student …
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
PlaceMankweng or Turfloop
… prospects for a better future. Mankweng developed in the 1960s when the University-College of the North was …
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… with 9 200 of them displaying ships from the 1920s to the 1960s. There is also an online service to assist with …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. …
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… small and large Afrikaner capitalists, but by the late 1960s the larger capitalists dominated the organisation. By … submission from the Afrikaner…
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… was later transferred to the Jubilee Arts Centre in the 1960s. Due to political tensions, Cecil Skotnes and Sydney …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… in 1982. Calls to expel the DRC came as early as in the 1960s when the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Joost de …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the beginning of 1969 for the …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the value of setting up a ‘group system’ – five or six main ‘groups’ or ‘finance houses’ that exercised control of … 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… as early as 1908 in the southeastern corner of Cameroon. 1960s An HIV viral variant known as HIV-2 is found in West … that Noe contracted HIV/AIDS in Africa…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…